Bed wetting alarms - experiences please

[VoluptuaGoodshag]

DD is 7 and wets the bed most nights. Decided to ditch the PJ pants with the new year and go cold turkey. This was going OK - dry for 8 nights out of 12 but since starting back to school she's probably dry 1 or 2 nights a week if she's lucky.

Am thinking of getting an alarm through the health visitor and just wondered what folks experiences are.

[deepdarkwood]

I'm going to hang around & lurk, as ds (7 very soon) is also still struggling with night-time wee...

[VoluptuaGoodshag]

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[VoluptuaGoodshag]

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[clockwatcher666]

We have just used an alarm for our 6 year old, and fingers crossed, he's been dry for 3 weeks now. Although he did used to have the odd dry night previously, he has never had more than 3 or 4 dry nights in a row until now.
We bought a wireless alarm, with the wires sown into the pants, as was not sure how tolerant ds would be of things clipped to him. It was rather expensive (£90), but I'm hoping to sell it on ebay sometime in the future.
The first few nights of using it, ds slept through the alarm, despite the unit being 2 feet from his ear and on the loudest setting-woke me up 2 rooms away. I guess this was why he didn't wake up for a wee! We changed the sound it made, and from then on, it woke him up when he was wet. He would have to turn it off himself, and go to the toilet to finish his wee and change his clothes.At this stage, he wasn't waking up quick enough to stop mid wee, so no wee in the toilet, but as I whipped the wet sheets off quickly, this seemed to save the duvet from getting wet.
After a couple of weeks of this, we had a breakthrough, where he woke up sooner and managed to wee in the toilet, and the 4 days later was dry :)and has been ever since. They recommend you use the alarm until there have been 14 dry nights in a row.
Interestingly,now he is dry, he does not need to get up for wee in the night,so I'm not sure how the alarm works, unless it breaks a habit that has formed.
Good luck if you try it.

[VoluptuaGoodshag]

Thanks. Shall see how it goes.